If one is considering the sheer number of rumours which are circling these days around NVIDIAs upcoming GeForce Titan graphics card, then one can assume, that it can't be long until the green graphics fraction reveals their new monster. Almost three quarts of a year ago we were asking ourselves what might be the performance level of a GK110 based gaming graphics card and today we did a major update on this article. What we ended up with is a performance prediction for an absolute monster of a graphics card. We're going to outline performance in no less than ten different games as well as four benchmarks. Are you as curious as we are?

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Taking a closer look at the GK110 graphics chip, you can see that basically it's an upscaled version fo the GK104 architecture (actually it's the other way round). In order to estimate the performance of a GK110 gaming graphics card we tested the GTX 660 Ti, the GTX 670 and the GTX 680. Those cards don't only feature a different number of SMX units they als have different memory interfaces. Based on the benchmark results of these three cards we did our estimation. From a confidential source we know that the typical boost frequency should be 1'050 MHz (ish). Concerning the memory frequency the source told us, that it should be the same like with the GTX 680. Therefore we calculated with 1'500 MHz. As we've already mentioned we estimated the number of SMX units to 15, but it could also be the case that the final product ships with 14 SMX units but incorporates additional TMUs and/or ROPs.

	GeForce GTX 690	GK110	GeForce TITAN	GeForce GTX 680
Chip	GK104	GK110	GK110	GK104
Process	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Transistors	2x 3.54 billion	7.1 billion	7.1 billion	3.54 Billion
GPU clock	915 MHz (Boost 1'019 MHz)	xxx MHz (Boost 1'050ish MHz)	837 MHz (Boost 876 MHz)	1'006 MHz (Boost 1'058 MHz)
Memory	(2x) 2'048 MB GDDR5	6'144 MB GDDR5	6'144 MB GDDR5	2'048 MB GDDR5
Memory clock	1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz)	1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz)	1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz)	1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz)
Memory interface	(2x) 256 Bit	384 Bit	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory bandwidth	192'400 MB/s	288'400 MB/s	288'400 MB/s	192'400 MB/s
TMUs	2x 128	224	224	128
Shader Cores	2x 1'536 (8 SMX)	2'880 (15 SMX)	2'688 (14 SMX)	1'536 (8 SMX)
ROPs	32 ROPs	48 ROPs	48 ROPs	32 ROPs
Shader model	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5
Maximum board power	300 Watt	xxx Watt	250 Watt	195 Watt

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - Skyrim & Borderlands 2
Page 2 - Test Setup	Page 7 - BattleField 3 & Black Ops 2
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike	Page 8 - The Witcher 2 & Max Payne 3
Page 4 - 3DMark 11 & Vantage	Page 9 - Assassin's Creed 3 & Far Cry 3
Page 5 - DIRT & Sleeping Dogs

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